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The Pope Visits Marseille
Pope Francis has said it repeatedly: He did not come to France, but to Marseille. Still, the French must not take offense, since, as he has emphasized, it has...
Who Is the Good Samaritan?
Despite the collapse or erasure of Christian references in Europe, contemporary language has retained a certain number of expressions that everyone still understands, at least to some extent. I...
Time to Wake Up
This interview with Pierre Manent, conducted by Eugénie Bastié, was originally published in Le Figaro. Eugénie Bastié: The crisis we are going through seems to be bringing about a return of the...
The Tragedy of the Republic
We French have for some years been overcome by a furor for republicanism and for citizenship. There is no activity so humble that it cannot take on an intimidating...
Repurposing Europe
For the Frenchmen who lived through World War II, the defining event of their lives was quintessentially political. It was the great refusal, embodied by General Charles de Gaulle,...
Human Unity Real and Imagined
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Between Athens and Jerusalem
Leo Strauss is the thinker who in the last few decades has contributed the most to the renewed examination of the polarity between Athens and Jerusalem, reason and revelation....
The Return of Political Philosophy
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